Achieving agriculturalbBreakthrough: Deep dive into seven technological areas

The breakthrough objective for the food and agriculture sector is to make climateresilient, sustainable agriculture the most attractive and widely adopted option for farmers everywhere by 2030 (IEA, 2022). The world is 1.1°C warmer than pre-industrial times due to human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The effects of climate change are felt globally and are projected to worsen with further warming. The agrifood sector is particularly vulnerable to climate change, with losses and damages occurring throughout the value chain due to extreme weather events like high temperatures, droughts, and floods. Small-scale farmers in the Global South are especially at risk, and current efforts to adapt to climate change are not sufficient. To minimise the impacts of climate change, it is crucial to stay within the 1.5°C to 2°C temperature goals set by the Paris Agreement. Achieving this requires immediate and deep reductions in emissions across all sectors, including the agrifood sector, which accounts for almost one-third of all GHG emissions (IPCC, 2023c), within a broader framework of just transitions that safeguards the interests of smallholder producers, particularly those in the Global South who are most at risk. The agrifood sector requires transformative changes (or breakthroughs) to reduce emissions and ensure food and nutrition security without damaging natural resources while also making smallholder producers more climate-resilient. However, the sector’s inherent diversity makes technologies and approaches for reducing GHG emissions and building long-term climate resilience very context specific, which in turn requires careful analysis of trade-offs and synergies across various dimensions. A bundle of innovations in practices, technologies, policies and financing, across various subcomponents of the agricultural value chain, are needed to achieve these breakthrough objectives. We use the term technological areas and approaches throughout the report to describe these innovations in practices, technologies, policies and financing. The agriculture chapter of the 2022 Breakthrough Agenda Report (IEA, 2022) identified seven technological areas and approaches to achieve breakthroughs in the agriculture sector. This report provides a detailed analysis of these seven technological areas and approaches by documenting the latest scientific advancements in each one and evaluating how these fare across the four principles outlined in the 2022 agriculture chapter. Additionally, this report considers the different geographical and socioeconomic contexts in which these four principles apply and accordingly qualifies them further.

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Main Authors:	Mukherji, A., Arndt, C., Arango, J., Derera, J., Flintan, F., Francesconi, W., Jones, S., Loboguerrero-Rodriguez, A.M., Merrey, D., Mockshell, J., Quintero, M., Mulat, D.G., Ringler, C., Ronchi, L., Narjes Sanchez, M.E., Sapkota, T.B., Thilsted, S.H.
Format:	Report biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	CGIAR 2023
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, AGRICULTURE, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, CLIMATE RESILIENCE, ADAPTATION, MITIGATION, TECHNOLOGY, FERTILIZERS, NITROGEN-USE EFFICIENCY, NITROGEN FIXATION, NUTRITION, FOOD LOSSES, FOOD WASTES, GENETICS, CROPS, BREEDING, LIVESTOCK, METHANE EMISSION, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, WEATHER, FORECASTING, GENDER, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, Sustainable Agrifood Systems,
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10883/23080
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